Personality functioning and mental distress in leaders of small- and medium sized enterprises.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

For leaders of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) grappling with diverse tasks and stressors, personality functioning can play a key role on stress perception and building and managing professional relationships. We investigated the relationship between SME leaders' personality functioning on the dimensions of self-perception and self-regulation on perceived stress reactivity (PSR), and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Methods

A cross-sectional sub analysis of a multi-centre RCT project was performed. A sample of N = 174 SME leaders from various sectors in southern Germany were examined on their self-rated levels of personality functioning (OPD-SQ), involving self-perception (facets: self-reflection, affect differentiation, sense of identity) and self-ref

SUBMITTER: Erschens R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11578471 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature